Modeinspect

Modeinspect is a design canvas with a team's codebase and coding agents built in. Designers edit the live product with visual controls, share working previews, and open reviewable pull requests that reuse existing components and tokens.

Modeinspect is a design canvas that sits on top of a team's actual codebase instead of a blank file. Designers connect a repository, open real routes and states of the product, and edit the live interface with familiar visual controls such as position, size, layout, fill and border. Coding agents are built into the same environment, so a change can be made on the canvas or in code and carried to the other side without a separate export step. The tool is aimed at design engineers, product designers and product managers at software companies that already have a component library and design tokens. Its main argument is that most product design work, such as design QA, spacing fixes, responsive behavior, copy changes and edge-case states, does not need a static mockup. Instead, a designer captures a live screen onto the canvas, including authenticated pages, checkout flows, empty, error and loading states, and edits it in place. No local dev machine is required, which removes the setup barrier that usually keeps designers out of the codebase. In practice, the work moves from exploration to a shareable live preview that colleagues and stakeholders can open, click through and comment on, across breakpoints. When the direction is settled, the change is built back as a scoped diff and opened as a normal pull request on a branch, with a description and screenshots. The system reads file layout, components, tokens and conventions, then writes within them, so the output reuses existing components rather than creating a parallel design system. CI checks and human reviewers still gate the merge. Among alternatives, it differs from prompt-driven app builders, which start from a blank prompt and produce throwaway apps, and from Figma, which the vendor positions as still useful for blank-page early concepts. Modeinspect targets the later moment when a design has to touch the shipped product. Customer examples on the site include Prelude, Kiwi.com, Moss and NCCER, and a free Hobby tier lets a team try it on a real codebase.